IT Security

Information Security Management System (ISMS)

How is SocialBox.Biz Helping companies find purpose for old tech by re-deployment into the local community ?

SocialBox.Biz team can coach your IT department on certified, safe methods of wiping” sensitive data out of old hard drives as well as hard drive removal processes on-site and help you donate unneeded computers to those most in need in your neighborhood via our community interest initiative. We distribute your old computers to qualifying homeless and disadvantaged clients of our partner accommodation services charities, train them to use basic office software, and help them create and send out resumes to their new employers.

Re-homing your goods on a local scale can have major impacts on many levels. In this article, we’ll highlight some of the ways in which directly giving your business goods to those in need can impact your local economy – and even the sustainability of your own business.

First, it’s important to consider further building up and maintaining  social impact. These three factors are vital in measuring the sustainability of any company, including the ethical impact of investments made in a company. More and more customers, clients, pertners, finance providers and investors are looking at these aspects. All in all, local social impact is important for your company. With that said, donating your goods locally is a great way to further build up and maintain strong ongoing impact.

How Donating Your Business Products Locally Can Make MAJOR Impacts

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Some time ago, SocialBox.biz director made a presentation to over 50 representatives of top London firms at the Environmental Best Practices event. The subject was “Secure Data Removal to enable Re-use and donation of IT Equipment” At the presentation, it was confirmed that sensitive information can be securely removed from all machines as long as companies use a reliable tools for data removal.

For example SocialBox.biz works with clients on addressing specific needs for data removal and where needed arranges appropriate on-site services for ultimate security. LOCAL reuse is the most socially and environmentally beneficial option — please ensure that SocialBox.Biz Community Interest Initiative is at the TOP of your list of suppliers when it comes to old tech. Please call us about our reuse donation service before you call the scrap recycling companies !

Whilst our focus is separating no longer needed but still useful items for reuse and donation, we can also arrange secure solutions for Hard Drives that cannot be wiped of data should be physically disabled prior to recycling through an authorized process. Our authorized recycling partners also follow relevant secure processes. We can provide separate boxes for recycling and for donating.

  

SocialBox.biz  and its partners follow relevant Information Security based policies & procedures such as those consistent with the principles of ISO 27000.

Some of our and our partners physical and digital security processes include:

  • On-site services and coaching for IT team on data / drive removal.
  • Storage in a secure warehouse in designated areas
  • Secure boxes for storage of items containing data
  • Limited access by authorised personnel only
  • Secure transportation in tracked vehicles
  • Collection tracking paperwork at the time of collection and delivery
  • Software and hardware solutions for data removal
  • Secure data removal with certificates provided and serial numbers where needed
  • Procedure & processes for quality control and double checking data removal

Additional IT Security solutions include:

Onsite or offsite data removal or hard disk drive and other storage device destruction service using a specialist shredder that shreds hard drives and storage devices into appropriate small pieces preventing recovery of data.  Please speak with your project leader or contact us 

Our on site services are starting at just £599 per day, if you have a preference for specific software or hardware to be used please let us know before booking the service contact us 

Different data erasure standards available to clients via specialist software license that SocialBox.Biz Community Interest Company has purchased:

Erase/Wipe Methods

1 – One Pass Zeros

When using One Pass Zeros, the number of passes is fixed and cannot be changed. When the write head passes through a sector, it writes only zeros (0x00 characters).

2 – One Pass Random

When using One Pass Random, the number of passes is fixed and cannot be changed. When the write head passes through a sector, it writes series of random characters.

3 – User Defined

You indicate the number of times the write head passes over each sector. Each overwriting pass is performed with a buffer containing the pattern you specified (ASCII string).

4 – US DoD 5220.22-M

The write head passes over each sector three times. The first time is with zeros (0x00), the second time with 0xFF and the third time with random characters. There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

5 – US DoD 5220.22-M (ECE)

The write head passes over each sector seven times (0x00, 0xFF, Random, 0x96, 0x00, 0xFF, Random). There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

6 – US DoE M205.1-2 (US Department of Energy M205.1-2)

The write head passes over each sector seven times (Random, Random, 0x00). There is one final pass to verify zeros by reading.

7 – Canadian OPS-II

The write head passes over each sector seven times (0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, Random). There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

8 – Canadian CSEC ITSG-06

The write head passes over each sector three times (0xFF, 0x00, Random). There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

9 – German VSITR

The write head passes over each sector seven times . (0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xAA). There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

10 – Russian GOST p50739-95

The write head passes over each sector two times. (0x00, Random). There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

11 – US Army AR380-19

The write head passes over each sector three times. The first time with 0xFF, second time with zeros (0x00) and the third time with random characters. There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

12 – US Air Force 5020

The write head passes over each sector three times. The first time with random characters, second time with zeros (0x00) and the third time with 0xFF. There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

13 – British HMG IS5 Baseline

Baseline method overwrites disk’s surface with just zeros (0x00).

There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

14 – British HMG IS5 Enhanced

Enhanced method – the write head passes over each sector three times. The first time with zeros (0x00), second time with 0xFF and the third time with random characters.

There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

15 – Navso P-5329-26 RL

RL method – the write head passes over each sector three times (0x01, 0x27FFFFFF, Random). 

There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

16 – Navso P-5329-26 MFM

MFM method – the write head passes over each sector three times (0x01, 0x7FFFFFFF, Random).

There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

17 – NCSC-TG-025

The write head passes over each sector three times (0x00, 0xFF, Random). There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

18 – NSA 130-2

The write head passes over each sector two times (Random, Random). There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

19 – Bruce Schneier

The write head passes over each sector seven times (0xFF, 0x00, Random, Random, Random, Random, Random). There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

20 – Gutmann

The write head passes over each sector 35 times. For details about this, the most secure data clearing standard, you can read the original article at the link below: www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html

21, 22, 23 – NIST 800-88

Supported three NIST 800-88 media sanitization standards:

1. The write head passes over each sector one time (0x00).

2. The write head passes over each sector one time (Random).

3. The write head passes over each sector three times (0x00, 0xFF, Random).

For details about this,the most secure data clearing standard, you can read the original article at the link below: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_with-errata.pdf

24 – Australian ISM-6.2.93

The write head passes over each sector once with random characters. There is one final pass to verify random characters by reading.

Many well known businesses and universities use the same software.

Further details from SocialBox.Biz website: